Will Hurricane Irene's Name Be Retired?

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Hurricane Irene caused billions of dollars in damage and forced
millions of people to evacuate, which could force the name
"Irene" into retirement even though the storm was only a Category
1 when it made landfall and was downgraded to a tropical storm as
it ravaged the Northeast.

In the Atlantic basin, tropical cyclone names (which
include tropical
storms and hurricanes )are retired, never to be used again, if
the storm causes noteworthy destruction, according to the
National Hurricane Center.

Retiring a storm name helps prevent confusion between a new storm
with a historic, well-known one.

"Usually it takes a 5 to retire, but societal and economic
impacts are also factors, somaybe," Weber said, referring to
Category 5 storms, the highest level of the Saffir-Simpson scale
of Hurricane Strength